4 ms·
So a company doesn't own hackernews? If the hn servers just go down, everything stays up because it's all distributed across a network?
by gremlinsinc 8y ago
So a company doesn't own hackernews? If the hn servers just go down, everything stays up because it's all distributed across a network?
- mattlondon 8y agodecentralised != distributed. People could argue that Facebook effectively has a monopoly on social media so that is a "centralised" source since you have to go to Facebook to access it. Yet pockets exist (e.g. HN) outside of Facebook, ergo decentralised. I do agree though, it is not distributed which has a different meaning. Checkout dat project, ipfs et al for that.
- gremlinsinc 8y agoHn is still centralized... It's a garden of its own... Just as Twitter and Reddit are all centralized. All forums are also centralized. All centralized means is one organization controls all the data/rules for that service. If they shut down or go out of business you lose all the data unless you backed out up somehow. Moderators on forums, Reddit hn, etc all have final say on what stays and goes... Though that could overlap a little in decentralized networks where the node owner has some control.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]